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Muldrow man dies in Sallisaw Jail
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Michael Lynn Odom, 49, of Muldrow was booked into the Sallisaw City Jail for public intoxication a little after noon on Thursday. Sallisaw Police Chief Shaloa Edwards said Odom was found dead Friday morning in his cell. He said the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigations (OSBI) is investigating Odom’s death.
Jessica Brown, OSBI public information officer, said Odom was placed in a single cell on Thursday and officers discovered Odom dead early Friday. She said the OSBI is conducting a crime scene investigation and interviews.
Danny Morgan, Odom’s, younger brother said, “We can’t get information about my brother’s death from the police department. It’s like pulling teeth.”
Morgan said the family has been trying to gather information about the events surrounding the death. He said Edwards told the family information couldn’t be released yet because Odom’s death is under investigation.
Morgan said Monday Odom had many medical problems. He said his brother was a diabetic, he was under the care of a pain management physician for back problems, he had high blood pressure and his sugar levels kept dropping.
“The things they are implying about my brother like he was disorderly and publicly intoxicated we (the family) are not going to accept. There are serious deficiencies about the stories from the police department,” Morgan said.
Cherokee Ballard, with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office said a complete report and a toxicology report was requested on Odom. Ballard said the cause or manner of death has not been determined yet and it could take up to four months.
“Depending on the complexity of the case it could take a while to get the complete results in,” Ballard said. “We should know something from the toxicology report in about four weeks.”
The medical examiners office has reported a backlog because there are so many cases the doctors are working on.
“We are hoping to get more funding down the line so we can hire more doctors and get more equipment,” Ballard said. “It’s a sad thing but people die every day. We are really understaffed and under funded. It’s a bad situation and there have been a lot of families that have been patient.”
As soon as the results come in from Odom’s reports we will inform the authorities the cause of death,” Ballard said.
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You may be right about people not knowing too much about the law but I know if this young man was a member of my family, I would have already contacted an attorney and an attorney as far away from Sequoyah County that I could find.